Celebrating Our Team of 33Floors Yardi Experts
This Employee Appreciation Day, we are celebrating the people who make our company special — our wonderful team of 33Floors Yardi experts whose backgrounds span decades, industries, and continents. Our strength as a firm comes directly from their stories. Each team member’s journey with Yardi is unique, yet there’s a unifying theme: a deep-seated appreciation for Yardi products and a commitment to helping others harness their full potential.
Many of our consultants began their careers as Yardi users themselves. They sat on the other side of the table, as property managers, accountants, and IT managers, implementing Yardi within real estate organizations long before they joined 33Floors. This firsthand experience is a critical part of our DNA. For example, in the late 1990s, Patricia Walsh helped introduce Yardi to the UK market while at Cushman & Wakefield. Confronted with the vast differences between American and British lease structures, Patricia worked directly with Yardi’s development team (and even Anant Yardi himself) to ensure the software met UK requirements. Her insight and determination helped get Yardi operational in a new region. Stories like Patricia’s underscore why our team truly understands clients’ needs — we’ve been in their position, leading ground-breaking implementations under high stakes.
Other team members were “converted” into Yardi aficionados a bit later, only to become champions of the software. Take Reece Smith, who admits he was initially hesitant when a client decided to transition to Yardi after he had mastered another system. Today, after 11 years of working with Yardi (seven of them at 33Floors), Reece is grateful for that switch.”Looking back, I’m incredibly grateful for that decision by my client, as it opened doors I never even imagined,” he recalls. As a former accountant, Reece has leveraged Yardi to work across dozens of countries, tackling diverse accounting standards and regulatory challenges with gusto. His journey from skeptic to expert reflects a common pattern: Once our team members dive into Yardi, they tend to never look back. This enthusiasm becomes a driving force in the service they provide to clients.
The breadth of industry expertise on our team is vast. We have colleagues like Suzanne Sowden, who spent 15 years in commercial real estate roles before becoming a Yardi super-user and later a consultant. Having been on both sides — as a client implementing Yardi across Asia and now as a 33Floors consultant — Suzanne brings a 360-degree perspective that clients find invaluable. Similarly, Jennifer Michaels led a major Yardi conversion at a U.S. REIT and collaborated with 33Floors as a client for custom reporting. She was so skilled that we invited her to join our team three times before she finally said yes in 2018! Now she’s helped nearly 100 clients optimize their Yardi platforms, especially in commercial modules like Forecast Manager and Construction Management.?
Read more about our fantastic team of Yardi experts on our blog.